How do I keep track of all my assignments and due dates across my classes?

Published 16 September 2026, updated 18 September 2026

Collect your dates and grading weights in one place. Use them to decide what needs attention. Then turn each deadline into smaller pieces of work that land on your calendar before the due date.

That is the whole job. Here is how to do it tonight, with any planner you already use.

A student at a desk in the evening with Bento's Week view open on a laptop, the week's classes and study blocks on the calendar. — Bento's Week view: your classes, your deadlines, and the work you have placed on days.

Step 1: Put every assignment in one place

Pick one place you will actually check. A paper planner, a notes app, a spreadsheet, or a desktop planner like Bento all work. The tool matters less than using a single list.

Make four columns:

Course
Assignment
Due date
Grading weight (percent of the final mark)

Then sweep through your stuff:

Course outlines and syllabi
Your learning management system
Any assignment sheets or project briefs

For each graded thing you find, drop it into the list. If you do not know the exact weight yet, write a rough guess and mark it with a question mark so you can fix it later.

If you use Bento, you can drop a syllabus PDF onto a class and it fills in the dates and grading scheme for you, then shows every assignment on the calendar with its weight.

Bento's Syllabus tab showing the important dates, topics, materials and policies it pulled out of one course outline. — What Bento reads out of one syllabus: the dates, the topics, the textbook and the policies, each in its own section.

Step 2: Choose what to work on tonight

Imagine your list has three items:

Chem 101, reading quiz, due tomorrow, 3%
History 210, short essay, due in four days, 10%
Psych 130, term paper, due in three weeks, 30%

Say you have two hours tonight.

Start with urgency. The quiz is due tomorrow, so it gets time first. Maybe it needs 30 minutes of reading and 15 minutes to answer questions. That is 45 minutes.

You have 75 minutes left. Now look at weight and size.

The history essay is worth less than the term paper, but it is due much sooner. You might give it 45 minutes tonight to outline and write a rough first paragraph.

You now have 30 minutes. Put that into the term paper. You will not finish much, but you can:

Re-read the assignment description
Pick a topic and write three bullet points

You have just made a choice that respects both urgency and weight. The quiz happened first because of the deadline. The essay came next because it is soon and nontrivial. The paper still got a small start because it carries a lot of weight.

If you do this kind of check-in at the start of each study block, your list turns into a set of concrete moves instead of background stress.

Step 3: Turn deadlines into a plan

A deadline is not a plan until you decide when you will do each piece of work.

For any assignment that needs more than one sitting, break it down:

Understand the task
Gather readings or sources
Do the reading or research
Draft
Edit and proof

Give each step a rough time estimate, then place those steps on your calendar before the due date. Keep the last day as a buffer, not the main work day.

In Bento, you can see every class meeting, assignment and exam on the calendar at once. The AI reads the grading scheme and remaining assignments and helps you decide where to put your energy.

Most apps will show you when something is due. Bento is a desktop planner that also understands how the course is graded and builds study guides from your own notes, all stored on your computer instead of our servers.

If you want the organizing done for you, download Bento and drop a syllabus on a class. The planner is free; the organizing is done by AI, and that part you pay for.